Fastly SVP, Adam Denenberg on Fastly’s new edge resources, edge computing, fog computing, and more
Last month, Fastly, a provider of an edge cloud platform, introduced a collection of resources to help developers learn the ins and outs of popular cloud solutions. The collection consists of step-by-step tutorials and ready-to-deploy code that developers can customize, and deploy to their...
“This is John. He literally wrote the book on Puppet” – An Interview with John Arundel
John Arundel is a DevOps consultant. Which means he helps businesses use software better. But when he's not supporting his clients, John is writing for Packt. John has written a number of books over the last few years, most recently Puppet 5 Beginner's Guide....
PiWars – Mike Horne’s world of Raspberry Pi Robotics
Robotics competitions have evolved from the time I participated in themduring my college days. Thanks to microboards such as the Raspberry Pi, it’s much more accessible – it could quite literally be described as ‘child’s play’. Mike Horne, the organizer of PiWars and co-organiser...
“Most of the problems of software come from complexity”: An interview with Max Kanat-Alexander
Max Kanat Alexander understands software implicitly. He has spent his career not only working with it, but thinking about it too. But don't think for a moment that Max is an armchair philosopher. His philosophy has real-world consequences for all programmers, offering a way...
“Technology opens up so many doors” – An Interview with Sharon Kaur from School of Code
School of Code is a company on a mission to help more people benefit from technology. It has created an online multiplayer platform that aims to make coding fun, simple and accessible to all. This platform has been used by over 120,000 people since...
“We shouldn’t be bound by stereotypes” – An interview with Claire Chung
Claire Chung is a PhD student at the Chinese University of Hong Kong researching bioinformatics. She is also one of the authors of Matplotlib 2.0 by Example. We spoke to Claire about her experience in tech, and her book. She offered a unique perspective...
An Interview with Heather Mahalik
Heather Mahalik is currently Principle Forensic Scientist and Program Manager at Oceans Edge, Inc, and the course lead for the SANS mobile device and advanced smartphone forensics courses. With over 11 years' experience in digital forensics, she currently focuses on mobile device investigations, forensic course...
An Interview with Christoph Körner
Christoph is the CTO of GESIM, a Swiss start-up company, where he is responsible for their simulation software and web interface built with Angular and D3. He is a passionate, self-taught, software developer and web-enthusiast with more than 7 years’ experience in designing and...
John O’Nolan – Ghost Q&A
John O'Nolan took some time out of his busy schedule to talk to Packt Publishing about the meteoric rise of Ghost - the stripped back blogging platform.
What were the biggest issues you faced/continue to face in the development phase?
Open source development is always a challenge....
An Interview with Sascha Gundlach and Michelle K. Martin
What initially drew you to write your book for Packt Publishing?
Trying to bundle all the CryENGINE knowledge and everything we have learned over the past decade working with CryENGINE was something we wanted to do for a long time. With a publisher like Packt...
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